Deepak Chopra Quotes

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Deepak Chopra

Profession : Speaker

Birth : October 22, 1946

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

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In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.

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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

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From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

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Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

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Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

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When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

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We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

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Victims always feel alone and helpless.

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There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

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When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

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I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

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